Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . ...October 6, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Rusiness Office and Pennasivania Ave ce: 110 Faat 12nd 8t Tower Building ent 81.. London, 1th wilth 8 The Erenine Star. with the Sunday morn adition. 1e dalivered br carriers within | @ity at B0 cenfe per month: daily enly r month: Sundase only. 20 centsl Ordera may. ha sent by mail or Main 3000, Collaction is made by earrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. i Afly and Sundar ke | s onls 5 Aoe undas only $0.00 1 mo 800 1 mo. 2.00: 1 mo 1er 1yr 1¥r 28 | & = | ANl Other States and Canada. i afly and Sundar..]yr.$1200 1 mo. 8100 Allr enlr 1yr 001 mo 780 | unday only 1wr. 001 mo.. E Member of the As: The Associated Press is axclumuels antitled 0 the ke o+ republication of all news dia Datches rredited tn it or not ntherwise cred ited in Thin naper and also the local news oublished herein Al rights of publication pecial dispatehen herein are aleo resersed -_——— District Day at Philadelphia. Today is District day at the Sesqui eentennial Wash ingtonians are in Philadelphia to pay their respects to the Liberty Bell and to visit the great exhibition that has heen established in commemoration of the ona hundred and fiftieth anniver- | mary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They go with hope in their hearts that they may impress upen some other thousands of Ameri can citizens the justice of their piea te ba mada “one hurdred per Alnericans” by the granting to them of the franchise, which is the funda mental right of citizens of the Unijted States. In some respects the observance of | District day at i almost the same as the observance of & “dav” for a foreign nation. Yet Washington does not observe the rite of respect for the hasic Declaration which forms the foundation of the American Republic in any other spirit than that of Americanism. For it is fully and sincerely Amerfean. It is the National Capital, the seat of Gov, ernment, the of all the mctivities of administration and of ail the activities of legislation.* It is the heart of the Natlon The denial of full American rights 1o the people who reside here is not to he attributed on pArt of those who signed the Decla tion. They had no concept of the pos =ihility of the part of their immediate successors or of pos: terity to apply 1o the last degree the principies which proclaimed in the immortal pronouncement that es- 1ahlished the free union of the colo-! nies remained for a subsequent ediustment, in the establishment of a #eat of government, the anomaly of a disfranchised group of people. denied all the rights of repre- gentation and participation in the making of laws and the imposition of taxes, in contravention of the doctrine to which the Declaration gave expres wion The long lapse of time between the signing of the Declaration and the present, with its spectacie of the dis franchisement of half a million Ameri- cAn citizens, does not lessen the jus- tlee or the force of the plea of Wash- ingion to he given those rights. Tardi- ness of correction does not justify an fnjustics. Difficuities that have re multed from the many vears of depar- ture from the fundamental principle of American Government do not make Several thousand | cent the Secquicentennial scene major | to any design the | A a failure on i | | { they It to create that correction impossible or inadvis- whle. The District asks to he given this right now, by the adop 1inn by Congress of an amendment to the itution which permits that body to grant to the National Capita the right of representation in the N: tlonal Legisiature and in the Electaral Cellege. 11 asks that the people of | the United States ba given the oppor tunity judgment upon its elatm for full Americanization, through their State It ~olces that appeal at Philadelphia, in | aarms which should arouse a response frem the country Recently sured ndications have heen given of a warm and sincera sympathy on the part of tha peaple of the States for the Dis- trict’s plea. There can be littie doubt that 1f the joint resol pending hefora Congress is adopted by the necessary two-thirds vote it will be approved by the requisite ratifica- tions by three fourths of the legis tures. District day red-lerier disfranchised Cor to pass legislatn, today tion now at Philadelphia will be a day in the history Washington if the appeal which thera being this day sounded arouses| the peopls of the country 1o a sense of the indignity that has been visited upon the half million Americans who | constitute the citizenrs the Na tional Capital and the anomaly that thelr disfranchisement constitutes in the face of the immortal principles the | enunciation of which is celebrated by the great exhibition at which Wash- ington Is today the guest RS, Print teems with health hints. The vander of bootieg liquor industriousiy menages to defeat most of them. . The Seals’ Salvation. Good news comes from the Alaskan Jelands, where are situated the rook eries of the T'he herd of thess valuable animals now numbers 761,251, an increase during the past | year of 35.231. In 1911, the last year of open sealing. these animals were peduced to 800, An international agreement plly ended the open siaughter which was fast exterminating this beautiful | and valuable animal. The number ex isting fn 1911 may sound like a lot, but it was only the merest fraction of the vast herds that once swam the Pactfio, and had not action been taken and the remnant placed under the aareful guardfanship of the United | States Bureau of Fisheries the fur seal would shortly have gone, never 10 return. The more than now alive, plus the pumber slaughtered sach sea- sea by oarefully calculated permis- slsn, demonstrate whet eficient ecn- % of | | of far hap- | 760 000 | fect. gone. although, like the aurochs geration i of 2 Summer White House somewhere | be elected from the West. |can film viewers recently saw a pic- m servation will accomplish and teach, or should teach, the American public a sound lesson. The bison are, in ef- of Kurope, they may persist as speci- mens for centuries, The reasons are, firat, senseless siaughter and, second, utilization of their range for other and more important purposes. The ocean gives the seals their range. It may, at first, seem ridiculous to make a cast into the future and im- agine a news dispatch of some far- distant date informing the public that Uncie Sam’'s foreste now total some hundreds of thousands of trees, with gratifving increase during the year just Think of counting trees! Well, to think of counting seals once seemed just i to sealers and to the purchasers of their catches. Yet the species was saved just in the nick of time. How wonld dexcendants of lovers of ea food of today like to read of such A proportionate increase in the num- ber of oysters, or lobsters er crabs, all | administered by the: Federal Govern ment and each species being slowly re- habilitated from an insignificant nu- cleus? This of course, an exag- but what has happened can happen and it is up to Mr. and Mrs. U. & Voter to see that it does not happen. past as abs is, ) A Summer White House Plan. Capital moving. once a favorite “in- door sport” of legislators, has become No longer are demands heard for the shifting of the seat of Government from the banks of the Potomac, where it was established a century and a third ago. Fhe fad for prop the to a point neaver the geographical, or at least the population of the countr passed about thirty-five years back. Pt new idea has come forth, of somewhat the sawme sort, and accord ing news dispatch from Kort Dodge, Towa, it is 10 be given expres: sion in formal manner at the coming n of Congress. Kepresentative “kinson of the tenth lowa district is to offer a bill for the establishment obsolete, sing removal cenier a o a west of the Mississippi, to permit the the United States to “breathe the air of the West and come in closer contact with Wesiern senti- ment."” This idea velopment. House for from New President of offers opportunities for de A Midwestern White President who “hails” England should be accom- a | panied by a New England Summer White House for one who may later And what of the South? Should it not have a Summer White House —or, if the cli- mate be unpropitious for such an es tablishment, a Winter White House? And there is the great Northwest, that corner where the national boun- dary reaches the Pacific. Should it not have a Summer White House to permit & President from one of the distant sections to assimilate the sen- timent of t region? In all consistency, there should be surely half a dozen immer White Houses,” according to the idea that a President cannot get into contact with local sentiment otherwise, Perhaps there should be forty-eight of them, permitting a peripatetic vacation, with two or three days’ sojourn in each. Then would the Chief Executive breathe the air of not only the West, but of all parts of the country indis- criminately. | During the past Summer Mr. (‘ool- idge has occupied a “Summer White House' in the Adirondacks. There he received visitors from all parts of the country. He did “‘breathe the air of every State, but he came in contact with guests, most of them self- invited, but none the less welcome, from every section. If he had occu. pied a governmentally established tem- porary vacation home *somewhere of the Mississippi,” he would have had the same range and \'al’lPl\v' of callers and counselors and no more. It may be a good idea that Repre- sentative Dickinson has advanced, but it has its difficuities, and they are of just the same nature as the difficul- ties that beset the Cupital movers of SNty years ago. The moment the pro- Was made to move the seat of svernment claimants for the capital privilege were legio ovver their N not west posal « They quarreled vespective advantages. Poli- tics plaved a large purt in the contro- versy. Finally a convention was heid Louis by the “movers” and it veritable Magison Square Gar . 4 complete deadlock, und it break eventuail did that It broke the Capitai- at St den uff: did not blockade of 1924, ke plan completely, however, And will & Summer White House scheme evoke jealousies and divergent claims, and in the end the matter will be passed up by Congress and left to judgment and the wish of the Chiet Executive. which is precisely where it should resr. moving just the e European nations are becoming more inchined to friendship as they realize that | | there is absolutely no money to be made in fighting outside the prize ring. Uncle Sam is in no | mood to put ! up a purse for demon- | strations of militaristic glory. et Hohenzollern Hopes. er since Wilhelm. the eldest of former Wilhelm Hohenzol- returned to Germany from Heol ind. where he iad fled for safety after the armistice. he has heen a cause of to the republicans of his na- | tive land. He was given possession | of a large estate and was supposed | 10 remain quiet there and not to take vt in any political movements. But | he has constantly heen in evidence and, with more and more daring, has appeared on public and drawn attention to himself. Ameri son Kaiser | lern i 4 i anxiety occasions ture of him at an aviation meet, where he was decidedly husy inspecting planes. Now a veritable government scan- dal has broken out, according to a story just received from Berlin. The eldest son of the former crown prince lately took part in review maneuvers at Muenschen. He resided at the same hotel with President von Hin- depburz. He repeatedly appeared on the drill field and took part in the ex arcises, alternately wearing the unt of the republican reichswehr and umdunnrlm The | matter was hushed up for a time, but the republican press brought it to light, despite official denials, and now Gen. von Seeckt, commander-in-chief of the German army, has resigned, in consequence of a bitter conflict be- tween himself and the minister of de- fense. ' The activities of the Hohensollerns all point to a beliet in the ultimate restoration of the monarchy, with one of them at the head. The eldest mem- ber of the house, at Doorn. is plainly living in anticipation of a summons to resume the imperial crown. His eld- est son went back to Germany for the purpose of being on the ground in case of any development favoring a reaction. Now the ex-Kaiser’s grand- son is putting himself forward the picture of militarism. . Monarchiam may possibly be re- stored in Germany, but the Hohen- 7zollern house has & slim chance at the re-establishment. Judging from promptness with which Gen. von Seeckt was forced to quit when the scandal broke, on the ground that he was aware of the princelet’s activity, there is a pronounced disinclination on the part of the German govern- ment to l!h)w any member of that family to gain prominence. | LT into When an Englishman says he does not understand American politics he shows a discouragement which s shared by many Americans. A United States statesman was first derided and afterward respected for referring to the tariff as “a local issue.” Every question, no matter how broad in in- ternational significance, becomes a local issue in the home town. ————— Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial was a great athletic event as well as a valuable patriotic reminder. 1f it could have been the scene of some of the world series base ball en- counters its distinction in historic an- nals would have been even greater. ——e—s Museolini regards the vote as a privilege not to be lightly conferred. He may yet devise a plan which will | disconrage the leisurely citizen who consults his convenience and stays away from the polls. The Queen of Rumania’s pet dog grieved at the prospect of separation from his mistress. He should be brought along, even if this country has to arrange a special “Be Kind to Animals” week for his benefit. et People who bought Liberty bonds “till it hurt” are contemplating de- velopments in the Daugherty-Miller trial with some curiosity as to a pos- sible method of utilizing them to make life eas ot The Senate will have many topics to consider. Vice President Dawes evidently realizes this as he.makes early arrangements to focus the spot- light on the subject of rules. ot 1t might help the prospect of peace in urope if research pertaining to “war guilt” could be left to the arche- ologists. U Some evangelist may yet arise who will help the cause of law enforce: ment by converting ali the bootleg- gers to a righteous manner of living. B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Old-fashioned Melody. Old-fashioned melody, Playin’ soft an’ slow, Rringin’ tq you an’ me Thoughts of long ago. Here's the jazz! Raz-ma-taz! Every kind o sound it has! Shakes the ltver Like a filvver! Hear the quiver And the joit As 1t jostles loose a bolt! Hear the radiator bolling And the carburetor toiling With new nolses unexpected Which are constantly detected, As to music they're translated With rejoicing unabated As we seem to dash along To the rhythmic rattle strong Of a flivver, fraught with pow'r Doing thirty miles an hour! But we weary of the pace And we seek more placid grace, ©Old-fashioned melody, Playin' soft an’ slow, Still brings to you an’ me Thoughts of long ago. Practical Understanding. “Do vou understand all the public vou discuss?”’ No, admitted Senator Sorghum. “A line of taik may be perfectly popu- lar one day and completely out of style the next.” questio Keepin' A-Goin’. We got to keep a-goin' Though friends may leave us Or mehbe grieve us— Jes’ why, there is no knowin’. Each day some change is showin'. Though hopes deceive us, New jovs they weave us, An' so we keep a-goin’. Jud Tunkins savs the greatest optimlst on earth is the radio an- nouncer who always keeps you ex- pecting something hetter. “Youth,” Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “easily perceives the truth but not the obstacles which centuries have thrown about the task of telling Tad said Genderology. rour boy Josh is looking like a shei “1 know it" answered Farmer Corntossel. “An’' I spose you'd say my daughter Jane, since she put on knickers, 18 lookin' like & heke.” Mollified Methods. The piraté made men walk the plank Before a jeering crew. The bootleg bandit brings his tank And gently poisons vou. “A huntin’ dogz.” maid U'ncle Ehen ‘is 80 willin’ A worker when game is searce dat you is ‘'mos’ tempted to go to town an’ buy him & rabbiy” the | THIS AND THAT ‘Templeton Jones, having definitely given up the idea of reducing his girth by a bread-and-water dlet, decided to reform his neighborhood as to noise. The community, he declared, was much too noisy. There was a pow- wow going on in it from morning until night—in fact, from very early morn- ing to very late at night. ‘They were such healthy people, his neighbors, and so full of “pep.”” as the young people expressed it. Din and racket came natural to them. To be healthy and to make a noise seemed synonymous in the comimunity. There was always some one to vent sleep. On the night that ever: thing else was quiet a new noise would develop. Some one always was ready to fill in the breach. “There shall be no quiet tonight—" It was almost as if this were the motto. The small boys, in particular, wor- ried Jones. Now it was not so long ago that Temp Jones had been a "small boy himseif. In his youth he had yelléd and screamed and roller- skated with the best of them. When he was a boy, however, he insisted, children were not allowed out ®o late At night. “Why, when I was a kid,” he sald, “if T stayed out as late as 9 o'clpck my mother had a .- “Then, too, T had homework to do. I believe that homework is no longer fashionable in educational circles. It hampers the free expression of youth, or something. No, it represses them. Yes, that is it! 1 “The thing repressing 4 boy. him but repress him. Knock his head off, but don't repress Johnnie. It would injure his soul. A little repres- sion. now and then, would do some of them good, but the parents don't seem to think 80, so—" * X k¥ It was a large “so,” and Jones had nothing further to say, not even a e, 9 He was a good sport, was -Jones. and he cast around for some method of quieting the obstreperous spivits of vouth witheut in any way casting re- flections upon the kids. He finally decided upon a museum of childhood toys. He recalled the action of an estl- mable lady who Jived in an apartment in which he was a resident. A mem- ber of the family was ill. A neighbor's small child, the owner of a toy whistle, insisted on tooting away constantly. An appeal to the mother brought re- wults for exactly 20 minutes. Perhaps that was all that could be expected. Anyway. the whistle continued to toot, and the sick person to fret, until the lady under discussion had a bright idea. She approached Bobbie and offered him 25 cents for the whistle. Robert pocketed the shiny coin, and the lady went away with the offend- ing whistle. Perhaps she had no business in thus providing the smail boy with some 50 lollyvpops, 100 choco- | late cigars, or 5 ice cream cones, or-—— to beware of today is Do anything to ‘Fempleton Jones recalled that inci- dent; and, as he did so, there came to him the big idea of creating a museum of childhood’s toys in his basement. “By George, that is he said to himseif. “I'll buy up all| the roller skates, and all the roller skate wagons, and all the base balls, and all the foot balls, and 3 P Jones fairly bubbled with his big idea. He was like a boy with a new toy. He expounded at length to his wife the right and wrong ways te deal with boy just the thing!" Senator Borah arrived in Washing- ton this week after a two-month ab- | sence. His loudly trumpeted country- wide speaking tour, which at the ad-| journment of Congress he explicitly | promised for the Summer and Autumn, has vanished into thin air. The ex- planation is as vet largely confecture. It can hardly be that public interest | in the Senator’s prospective speeches | failed (o materialize. He ix always | sure of a wide hearing. The most ob- | vious answer would seem to be that | Borah himself lost his enthusiasm for | the undertaking. Before leaving | Washington in July he sketched out a speech-making itinerary which was to take him through the Middle West, along the Atlantic seaboard and into New England. Hundreds of invita- tions to appear and speak were on his desk. He was to tour without any particular reference to Republican campaign plans and wholly independ- ent of the party's “Speakers’ Bureau.” He was to take the World Court and prohibition as the topics of his talks and make them the issues of the hour. Those to whom the Sen outlined his plans had vision | Borah's name on the front pages every day until election. Various Re- publican leaders were far from happy at the prospect. One speech in Georgia and various appearances in ldaho and adjacent territory, which attracted slight notice in the Kastern | press, is all that has materialize date. His present business in V ington has to do with the prelimi- | naries of the prospective investigation of the alien preperty custodian’s of- fice by the special Senate committee | which Rorah heads. He “ma it is | still indefinite—make a few appear- ances on the stump. If so. they will | be under regular Republican cam- paign auspices. Altogether it looks | like another lucky break for Mr. Coolidge. % %k x Americans resident abroad and American travelers whose passports expire while they are far from home {are no longer ander the necessity of | carrying on a long-distance and slow | correspondence with the . State De- | partment here in order to secure new | passport papers. Delay and red tape have heen eliminated. Effective Oc- tober 1. American consulates in the principal European cities have the au- | thority to issue and renew passports without reference to Washington. {Conzress at the last session amend- |ed the law and Secretary Kellogg has just issued the requisite orders. EEE I Secretary Mellon on his recent trip. abroad had a lot of fun and meanaged {a fine holiday for himself. which the |cable dispatches entirely falled to ve. | {port. He spent several delightful weeks at Evian-les-Bains, France. a little town near the Swiss border. | He went fishing almost every day. ! There were no secret serviee men to bother about, no waiting newspaper correspondents to report his catcives. { He rowed hix hoat alone across the | {lake from Evian to Lausanne, a {long 8 miles. He hiked 10 miles at | | midday in a hot August sun when his | automobile broke down, in order to keep a luncheon engagement at his hotel with Sir Robert Horne, ex-| He covered the 10 miles in 3 hours. ! Not a bad record for A man nearing 70 | wha rarely plays golf. l Conversion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which extends from Washington to Cumber- | boulevard, has heen recently pro- | jected. The canal follows the course | of the Potomac and winds its way | way in its stead would have many easy curves, but no hille. It wou'd merve az an important link in the | chancellor of the British exchequer. | * X X X famous _old land, Md., into a broad macadam | along for nearly 150 miles. A road- | ocoast-to-coast Lincoln Highway. The | BY CHARLES E. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS | cessfully | of Huston Thompson. whose term | Shields of Tennessee—have both been It was said that the | for |the news | portance when it comes to the ques- TRACEWELL. “Jt does no good to bawl them out,” he said, with conviction. “That is the sure way to maké a boy do just the opposite to the way you want him to act. f you say anything to a kid, he thinks you are an old grouch, and his parents think meaner thoughts about you than he doe: They may know vou are right, but boys will be boys, and parents will be parents. “Now the first kid that comes along here, I am going to buy his skates off him, in more senses than one. No. I don't believe he will go and buy another pair, for I am going to play fair and give him a good price, but not enough ta buy another pair of skates and many seats to the movle thrown in.” Jones' first prospect was Sammy Pendleton, 10 vears. as big as 14, and twice as noisy. Sam had a beautiful pair of steel-wheeled skates, with the aid of which he became a modern Mercury. Sammy could make almost as much noise on them as a two-ton truck during daylight, while .after night- fall he gave a very good imitation of a fire engine at full speed. “Hello, Sam!" Jones greeted the young hopeful. “'Lo.” replied Sam, in the cour- teotis new manner fashionable among the voungest set. .Jones had heen brought up to say “Yes, sir,” to his elders “Sammy, skates vou Hu A nice pair of skates—how much will you sell them for? My father paid $4 skatesy” “T'll_give you $5 for them, Sam— how about 1t?" * &k * that's a got there.” nice pair of for them Pendleton’s noisemake in the basement 0 Sam were stowed away as_exhibit No. 1. Jones soon got a heautitul specimen of roller-skate wagon. It helonged to Johnny Myerson, 9. who had con- structed it out of a soap box and a pair of old rusty skates. The hox acted as a resonating chamber for the skates and the whole excelled two five-ton trucks in broadcasting ability. Jones never revealed what he had Johnny Myerson for this but Jones was, as stated, an eminently fair man and saw to it that John made a fair trade. Soon Templeton Jones had 11 pairs of skates roller-skate wagons, 6 fool balls and 10 base balls in hi collection. And he was constantly adding to it. Dinner guests, in their, tuxedos. were invited into the basement, not to see the pretty furnace, but to view Jones' museum. The days passed, and necessarily the nights, both quieter than was ever known before. The thing was a suc- cess! Jones prided himself upon it. The boys of the neighborhood, with plenty of surplus money (supplied by Jones), were going in for rare stamps Yo add to their collections, six-tube radio sets and the like. z Fverything was 10! until one night the deep silence of the com- mimity was broken by a sound as of feeding time at the Zoo. Jones dropped hix book in amaze- ment. “What's that?” he asked his wife. Mrs. Jones opened the front door and peered out. “It's boys. whe whispered. “They're standing on the corner—about 45 of them, as far as'1 can make out-——" “Yes, yes—go on- “They're standing there and just velling —just standing and yelling, that’s all’” canal, built under the direction of George Washington, was. intended to be carried farther West until it reached the Ohio River, giving the Midwest a water outlet to the Atlan- tic via the Potomac. Though it stop- ped at Cumberland, it operated suc- for more than a ceptur recent times its sole traffe has al from the Cumberland Valley Floods three years of commission and it | abandoned Court proceedings looking to its sale were recently started, and served to a celerate the move to have the Go ernment acquire it as a houlevard site. ' * oK K In heen ¢ to Washington ago put it out is now virtually Radio audiences are not showing so keen an appetite for campaign speeches this year and the political strategists have been obliged to change their broadcasting tactics. The Democrats are sticking to politics in their radio programs but tabooing long speeches. Short and peppy talks are still in demand. thev believe. The Republicans are substituting jazz. Hereafter the G. O. P. radio rallies broadcast in New York will be moatiy and amusement. A “Republi- * devoted entirely to enter- tainment, has been booked as a daily radio feature. And Gene Tunney is announced as one of the headliners at the Republican theatrical radio rally, which is expected to be one of the digh spots in the radio campaign. * kxR There is no dearth of candidates for the vacant place in the Federal Trade Commission created by the retirement cently expired and who will not be re- appointed. Mr. Coolidge must, of ne- cessity, pick a Democrat. in accord- ance with the bipartisan provision of the law creating #he commission. He finds plenty who are ready to serve. Two Democratic senatorial “lame ducks”—Dial of South Carolina and suggested to him as “available.” Car- ter Glass, Senator from Virginia, and his colleague, Swanson, are hoosting for the appointment of Virginia's former attorney general. G. Pol lard. Senator Overman of South Caro- lina has a couple of candidates from his State. The President. if he runs true to form, is likely to pick a “dark horse.” * ok Ok K The preservation for posterity of important films _in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution. an idea hailed with universal approval and credited to Will Hays, movie czar, is still far from being an accomplished | fact. Producers of various notable flms have proclaimed that copies were to he enshrined in Uncle Sam's vauits ‘The latest announcement along this | line relates to a new screening of | “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” In this instance. mithsonian copy should be sealed up and not opened | in_the senatorial a hundred years. But the insti tute reports that to date no films have been. received. and no definite arrange ments made for their reception. The consensus of opinion, seems to be that reels are of paramount im- tion of what films shall be saved for future generations of Americans. (Copyright. 1926.) oo Wayward Boys. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. Children are such disappointments! Mr. Coolidge’s father wanted be a doctor. v An Uncounted Item. From the Foart Warth Star-Telegram. Golf costs Americans $640,000 a vear, not including what it costs the players to square 1 e atven q themselves with a Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The people of the Pacific Coast and the intermountain States are no ex- ception to the rest of the country in their regard for President Coolidge. according to information brought to ‘Washington within the last week. The campaigns waged by senatorial can- didates and Republicans seeking elec- tion to the House in thome States is not based in the Far Weat on ihe issue of “standing by the President” 10 the same extent as It is in some of the other States, it is true. Never- theleas the Republican candidates are benefiting from the personal pop- ularity of the President. The Presi- dent is popular there for the same reasons that he is liked in the East. The people regard him as essentially a safe President. They like his st plicity and they like his policy of economy in government. ‘The West has not looked with favor on the proposed adherence of the United States to the World Court ‘The impression exists there also that the United States has been too gener- ous in its settlements with the foreign debtor nations. The administration, in so far as it has tought for these issues, is not so popular tn that sec- tion of the country as it might be. But the tendency is to differentiate, according to the reports brought here, between the President and the admin- istration generally * xR % Gov. John .J. Blaine of Wisconsin, it now appears, is to have a real battle for the senatorial seat now occupied by Senator Irving L. Lenroot. When he defea Senator Lenroot for the Republican nomination, it was taken for, granted that the governor would beelected to the Senate. It is very likely that this will vet be the out- come of the election in November. But the La Folleite Progressive. Blaine, is to have agal him in the general election not only the Demo- cratic nominee —whose chances for election are so slight as to be negli- gible—but also a stalwart candidate and a Zimmerman candidate, running as Independents. The stalwart can- didate §s J. N. Titimore, who in the primaries was a candidate for . the nomination on the Republican ticket for lleutenant governor. Incidentally it may be remarked that Tittimore ran far ahead of Perry, the stalwart candidate for governor, In the primary election. Tittimore was for- merly the head of the Equjty Society. a farm organization. He Was selected its candidate for lleutenant gov- ernor by the stalwart convention in Wisconsin several months ago. Oharles D. Rosa. who is regarded as the Zimmerman candidate for Senator, is a more formidable op- ponent, however, than Tittimore. He is a_member of the State Tax Com- mission, serving under appointment by Gov. Blaines He claims to ‘be a La Follette Progreasive, just as did Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, who defeated Attorney General Her- man L. Ekern for the Republican nomination for governor and thereby upset the plans of the lLa Follette Progressive group. headed by Senator tohert M. La Follette. jr.: Gov. Rlaine and Mr Jkern. Tn the primary ecampaign Reosa supported Zimmerman, and it is now taken for granted that many of these who voted for Zimmerman will vote for Rosa. Included in the Rosa support will be many of the Progressives who dislike Gov. Blaine. and in all probability many of the stalwarts, who voted for Zimmerman against Fkern. hoping thus to drive a wedge into the hither- to solld Progressive ranks. ERE R What the La Follette group fears is that the, stalwarts will seek now to accomplish the defeat of Gov. Blaine helped to defeat Ekern in the guber. natorial primaries. If they could bring about the defeat of Blaine as well as Ekern. they could well de- clare that thev had had a succe: ful vear in Wisconsin. While they will not have elected either a st wart governor or a stalwart Senator. they will at least have prevented the | ¢ election of two of their arch enemies. Some of the Blaine supporters. on the other hand. insist that the can- didacy of Tittimore and Rosa will split the opposition to the governor 50 succesafully that Blaine will come through with flving colors. Rut in the gubernatorial prjmary, the op- position to Ekern was in the same way held to he split between the stalwart candidate Perry and Zim- merman. The stalwarts. however. by the thousands. deserted their own candidate Perry, and voted for Zim- merman. They may do the same for Rosa. Senator Robert M. La Follette, ir.. who campaigned vigorously for Gov. Blaine in the primary fight. is unable on account of his health to take an active part in the present campaign. “This will be a handicap to the govern- or. In the primaries. Gov. Blaine had only the opposition of Senator Lenroot and of a wringing wet didate by the name of Kelly, vote was megligible. It was rumored at the time that many of the Demo- crats cast their votes for Rlaine, as against Tenroot. But these Demo- crats now may be expected to swing back to their own nominee for Sena tor, thereby decreasing the Rlaine strength. it As the campaign in Ohio enters its final stage, the supporiers of former Senator Atlee Pomerene. the Demo ratic nominee for the Senate against | Senator Willis. Republican incumbent. are growing more and more hopeful. Straw votes taken in various parts of the State show Pomerene exhibiting much greater strength than was be- lieved to be his. Senator Pomerene himself has taken little or no part in the campalgn himself up to the pres- ent. He has devoted his time to_the Government's prosecution of the Cali- fornia and Teapot Dome oil reserve cases, and this week appeared in the Supreme Court in these cases. He is expected. however, to get into action in Ohio this week and to campaign at top speed until the election is held. Senator Pomerene is highly regard- d in Ohio, where he was twice elected Senator in the past. The organized drys are against him because of his op- position to the eighteenth amendment when that issue was before the Senate, But comparatively little is being made of the wet and dry issue in the present campaign by Senator Willis, who is a hone dry. Senator Willis is one of those members of Congress who. ac- cording to testimony given before the Senate campaign investigation com- mittee. received at one time honora- riums for speaking for the Anti-Sa- loon League. This i& not sitting so well in the minds of some of the vot- ers, it ie said. Senator Willis ha made a vigorous campaign. however and has appealed especially to the vot- ers to “stand by President Coolidge™ and send a Republican back to the Sen- ate, where there is danger of Demo- cratic control in the Seventieth Con- gress. Ohio has been so overwhelming- Iv Republican in recent elections—ex- cept for governor—that Senator Pom- erene has a great handicap to over- come at the outset. The odds are still in favor of Willis, though they are said in some quarters to be diminish- ing. The championing of former At- torney General Daugherty by Senator ‘Willis in the Senate when Mr. Daugh- erty was under fire two or three vears ago is now recalled in view of the present trial of Daugherty on charges of conspiring against the Government. T The defeat of Ekern for the guber- natorial nomination was a real body blow for the La Follette organization in Wisconsin. Tt is no seeret that the La Follette Progressives were race just as they | ean- | whose | | “mass of voters’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q Wil you please give me the correct spelling and pronunciation of the singular and plural of the popular flower, gladioius’—K. L. P. A. \Webster's Dictionary says that the following are correct: gla-die’oh-lus or glad’ioh’lus. The Latin plural of the “gladiolus” is gladioli. The English plural is gladioluses. Q. How much money did Miss Ederle win by swimming the English Channel”—F. Q. A: Miss Ederle «1id not win a purse | by swimming the FEinglish Channel. Tt | is aaid. in fact, to have cost her $5.000 for expenses of training, hiring tug boats, etc. Q. Are cigarettes doped?—\W. H. M. A. Carl Werner savs. “Owing to the prevalence of false notions about so-called ‘doping’ of cigarettes, it might he well for me to reiterate that in the hetter grades there is ahsolute. 1y no foreign substance of any kind applied to or contained in the tobacco. and that even in the cheaper grades the tobacco is treated with mnothing except glycerin. which is absolutely harmlese. And as o the paper used for wrapping the tobacco, it con- tains no deleterious substance of any kind and i= so thin and fragile that the ash. after the paper has heen consumed, is almost a negligible quantity.” Q. Does the Government have trol of the meat-packing house H. R.J. S A. It does not have entire control of the meat-packing houses. hut only of those houses that ship their prod ucte outside of their State. This Government supervision is under the control of the Meat Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture There are some 2500 employes in this service, including clerks, lahora- tory inspectors and veterinary in spectOrs. Q. TPlease tell allows no foreign v ports without permissfon.—W. E. W. A. Greenland allows no foreign vessels fo enter her ports without permission hecause in that ) trade is a monopolv. controlled by the Roval Greenland ‘Trade Commis. sfon since 1774. No foreigner can reside in the country or trade with the inhabitants without special per- mission. Q. How much revenne Federal Government collect sales of automobiies £ A. The commissioner of internal revenue savs that during the flscal vear 1926 the excise taxes on auto. mobiles, motor cyeles, ete,, amounted to $138, 194.80. Q. Kindly advise me of the ference between, whole wheat graham bread.—C. L. W. A. Generally speaking, the differ ence between whole wheat bread and graham bread ix that there ls less coarse bran in the socalled whole wheat bread than in zraham bread True graham bread is made from graham flour Dr. Alexander Gra ham was the first to advocate milling the entire wheat, adding nothing and subtracting nothing. In some milis the whole wheat flour is a product of the whole wheat put through a process to take out the coarsest bran. Bakery's graham bread is made from a mixture of pure graham flour and white flour. proportions varying— sometimes being half and half. Q. What steel”—P. S. A. To remove rust from steel, soak the article In kerosene for at least 24 hours. If the object which is rusty cannot be soaked, scour with a fine scourer. Q. Did any part R.0. H. A. Jefferson prepared designs for the White House and submitted them anonymously. His plans were not reepted, bt when he bhecame President he designed the terr and colonnades that were added the mansion. Q me why Greeniand sels to enter her does the from the adif- and will remove rust from Thomas Jefferson design of the White House” to How large an organization is es | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the American Library Assoclation?— | W. H. H. A. The membership of this organi- zation is almost 10.000, which {s an increace of 64 per cent within the last five vears. The pe of its work ranges from bookbinding to interne- tional relations and library leglsla- tion. Its activit include the prep- aration of short reading courses, the atndy of the library's place in adnit education, compllation of & catalogue of 10000 books for the genaral library, and the conducting of & Summer institute for instructors fn library science and of an interna- tional library school in Paris Q’ Can von tell me anytidog of the supersiitfon that it is bad luck to walk under a ladder>—f. &, A. Nothing definite {8 known oon- cerning the origin of the super- atition in regard to walking under a ladder. According to some anuthorl- ties, the idea is traceahle ta the fact | that Christ was taken down from the crose by means of a ladder There is a general helief in England that if a woman walks under a ladder she will not he married within the vear. It is more probable. however that the Idea is associated with the possible danger of falling obfects since persons employving a ladder for work generally ecarry toals which might fall on a passerby Q. How the National eountry ?—L. € A. The total tional parks is 7.493 is coversd By of this land system much Pa B area of the 3 acres 19 Na | fiveday work week national organt Q. Has the been indorsed by any week in the in controlled b 20 of thefr | of the fiveday work | in this conntry | Jewish people. and a pled }thplll‘ for its adoption. xre containad in a statement issued by representa tives of the I'nion Orthodox Rabhie of America and Canada. the Rabbini | cal Assemblyv. the Union of Orthodax | Congregations of America and the United Synagogne Q. Did Fort Jefferson. on an is oft the coast of Florida. play anv part during the Civil War? 1. H. €. A. Fort Jefferson. which ix on one of a group of islets keys &newn as “Dry Tortugas,” was used as a penal station during the Civil War, It was aholished after the war nd | What is a quahauz’— 1" R A. A quahaug is a hard clam ia« also known as the “little neck since ita siphon or “neck” is much shorter than that of the “soft™ ar long-neck™ clam Q. I Can you tell me the height of steps of the Cireat Pyramid in vptr7—I. K. A. The steps of the Great Pyramid {are 4 feet 10 inches high Q in the wor ! tonnage” G. H. P | A The largest | world iz probably Pere M ! Lake Michigan. This ferry a eapacity of 30 cars: length 0 feet beam. 36 feet: depth. 36 feet: displace | ment. 4,200 tons. The Baikal Trans | efherlan ferry and some of the « | ferry barges of New York probahly are next in rank to Pere Marquette. Where is the largest ferry hoat 1 operated and what is i1 What is the second largest hoat rquette in the of hoat has ferry There is no other agencu in the world that can angwer as wany legit imate questiohs as our frec informao tion burean in Washington, 1. ¢ This highlu organized institution has heen built up and is under the personal di- | rection of Frederic J. Haskin. Ry | keeping in constant touch with. Fed eral bureans and other educational en | terprises it is in @ position to pass on to you authoritative information of |the highest order. Swbmit yonr {queries to the stafl of ccperts whose services are put at vour free disposal | There is no charae except ? cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Ru reau. Fredevie . Haskin, [hrector Washington, D. C. President’s “Self-Portrait” Brings Prais Few newspaper interviews have ever created wider comment than the one by Bruce Barton, recently distributed by the Assoclated Press. And no sub- ject has shown by the editorial com- ment upon it more clearly the truth of the ancient adage that one man’s meat is another man’s poison. The whole gamut is yjun from ful some praise to saveastic criticism. There are many ready with tributes which. like the Milwaukee Journals (independent). declare the interview “the glimpse of a soul,” or meet the description of the Canton News (Dem ocratic) as “the happlest picture of the sweetness of American life.” re flecting. as the New York Herald- Fribune (Republican) expresses i, “a greatness of character” which the have sensed On the other hand. papers like the Chattanooga News (Demacratic) find it merely the effort of a “‘clever poli tician.” and apropos of the President’s remarks on “marital bliss’ suggest that “perhaps we have a Dorothy Dix in the White House ', But such “unfriendly eritics.” the St. Paul Dis- pateh (independent Republican) d clares, are “wide of the mark” when. a8 the Hartford Courant (Republican) suggests, they “diligently invent” ulterior motives hehind “this seif- painted portrait” of an able. God fear ing man.” In the interview itself. the Lynch- burg News (Democratic) finds only that which will “tend to dissipate the picture of a cold, dispassionate. cal culating man,” but points out the possibility that ‘‘the agreement to give it publication mav he considered by some as “a piece of shrewd calcu- lation on the part of a man seeking further political honors.” x o oxox Aside from the motive: th story, the philosophy it reveals tarts many varying deductions. The New York Times (independent Democratic) strikes a note typical of a number of writers when it states that the Pre dent shows that “he regards himeelf merely as one of the people—plain people’ whom the Lord must have loved, as Lincoin sald, since He created so many of the) It is this “human side” of the Chief Executive that the Savannah Preas (Democratic) declares “is going to do a lot to bring him closer to the peo- ple,” for the praise of the jovs “of home and fireside,” says the Harris- burg Telegraph (Republican), is “a —eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ‘more anxious to have Ekern win than they were to have Blaine defeat Len- root. For some time after the pri- maries the La Follette Progressives debated whether they should run either Ekern or Phillip La Follette, the second son of the late Senator, as an independent candidate for zov- ernor. It was finally determined not to enter a candidate, but to center all their efforts on the election of Blaine. Blaine only defeated Senator len root for the nomination by about 30,000, which is a small margin for La Follette ul*“lll In Wisconsin. e and Criticism | gospel to which any thimking man or woman ecan subscribe But not all the newspapers agree. and while the Newark Evening News (ndependent) admits that mothers, wives, grandmothers ——even siep mothers™—will find comfort ‘ President’s words. that paper | their content a flareback 10 erfes of “soft sugar,” a hyv-pr. the maple’s sap. credibly s charine.”” which. it the “fairk ful of Vermont © “spread thick ‘T'he Baltimore pendent) registers claring that the and snave as it is Coolidge is not than “for all its creamy blandness, is in some senses a failure” leaving Its subject “an enigma.” The Omaha’ | World Herald (independenty likewise treate the matter in somewhat lighter vein. alluding to Rruce Rarion as “a | specialist of greatness on the haof ™ | whose “skiliful promptinz”* produces | the “sonorous wisdom' which it sum marizes as “the ideal of the public schoal system. the Y. M. € the Boy Scouts, the Council of Americani zation. the Ku Klux Klan and the o clety for the standardization of man ners, morals and thought of the | American citizen. Messre. Borah. | Lowden, Longworth et al. "will please take notic 5 To the Hartford Times (independent Demoeraticy Mr. Barton's achleve ment is “by no means epochal.”” While it_helieves he “no doubt set ont to do Mr. Coolidge a favor, 1o reveal him to the Nation and ‘sell him to the vat ers.” " it concludes that the anlt Is a statement of views “negligihly con sequential.” | * oo o in the finds in I mem tuct of avers son an Evening Sun (inde its abjections. de interview. “smooth *tells rather what what he is and A% if In answr to such criticiam the Philadelphia Public Ledzer (inde pendent) points out that “intelli i gentsia” will not like the interview hut points out that despite the fact that it may give an “acute pain’ to the “neoliterati.”” the common sens of the Chief Executive. 1o “most of his fellow citizens, will nat he tiresome. tedious or bromidic,” for, as the Ashe- ville Citizen (Democratic). puts it, “Mr Coolidge thinks much ak most peopie do.” and what he says is “wholesome advice,” the Rochester Times-Union (independent) heliev | To many others Mr. Barton's effort i the ‘“engaging picture’ that the Davenport Democrat (Democratic) considers it, from which, the Chris- tian Science Monitor (independent) points out, “every one can learn some lessons.” To these lessons, the Ports- mouth Star (Democratic) advises, “young men and women should lend an attentive ear.” In accordance with this view and particularly sympa- thetic with the President's religious observations, the Knoxville Sentinel (independent Democratic) declares its preference “to he associated in our hellef with the President of the ! United states.” i Aside from the moral value of his views, the Kangas City Journal (Re publican) assays Mr. Barton's contribu. tion as “the hest political article of the year.”